Saint Augustines confessions translated: and with some marginall notes illustrated. Wherein, diuers antiquities are explayned; and the marginall notes of a former Popish translation, answered. By William Watts, rector of St. Albanes, Woodstreete

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Saint Augustines confessions translated: and with some marginall notes illustrated. Wherein, diuers antiquities are explayned; and the marginall notes of a former Popish translation, answered. By William Watts, rector of St. Albanes, Woodstreete
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Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo.
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London :: Printed by Iohn Norton, for Iohn Partridge: and are to be sold at the signe of the Sunne in Pauls Church-yard,
1631.
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"Saint Augustines confessions translated: and with some marginall notes illustrated. Wherein, diuers antiquities are explayned; and the marginall notes of a former Popish translation, answered. By William Watts, rector of St. Albanes, Woodstreete." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A22627.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 13, 2024.

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CHAP. 38. Vertue is endangered by Vaine glory.

1. THereport of the peoples mouthes, and our own famously knowne actions, car∣ry along with them that most dangerous temptation of the loue of praise: which, for the aduancing of a certaine pri¦uate excellency of our owne, endeauours to draw vnto it selfe, the poorely beg'd voyces

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of the people; And that, at such time too, whenas I say a secret blame vpon my selfe for it: yea, euen in that very par∣ticular, for which I reprehend it. For with a greater vanity does a man glory oftentimes, of his contemning of vaine-glory; for which reason hee cannot be sayd to glory, in his contempt of vaine-glory: for Hee does not truely contemne it, who inwardly glories at it.

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